Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roll out the red carpet and polish up the crown. In the midst of Saturday's squash holocaust at Hemenway Gym, the Crimson's Mike Desaulniers clearly established himself as the king of college squash by turning his showdown match with vaunted Tiger sophomore Tom Page into a one-sided farce, in one of the great athletic performances of Harvard history...
...Cape Cod, Gornick talked to a 70-year-old Polish-born Catholic, a former labor organizer and Spanish Civil War volunteer, who today is a folk hero to vacationing liberals. There are old Wobblies from Idaho, miners from West Virginia, women who left their families to go "underground," fiery daughters of dirt farmers, rebellious sons of the rich, and even an ex-Communist who now works for organized crime...
...difference between the Titanic and NBC? Answer: the Titanic had an orchestra." Indeed, the malaise is so well diagnosed that NBC itself carries jokes about its incompetence. When President Carter's translator flubbed in Poland, Johnny Carson told his Tonight show audience that "later on Carter's Polish interpreter will be out here to explain why he was just made head of programming at NBC." Though NBC was second for much of the new season, it is now clearly in last place with a 17.9 average in the Nielsen ratings, compared with...
Inevitably, it is the glitches that will be remembered. The fumbles in Warsaw by two interpreters who seemed unable to convert Jimmy Carter's English into accurate Polish. The live TV mike in New Delhi that enabled pool reporters to hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service...
...kick in the teeth to the Hungarian people," charged Ohio Democratic Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar. "It's a great blunder committed by President Carter," protested Polish-Hungarian World Federation President Karol Ripa. These-and worse-outcries, along with demonstrations at the White House gates, were raised again last week by Hungarian-Americans at Carter's decision to return the Crown of St. Stephen to Budapest. The legendary symbol of Hungarian nationhood, the priceless gold crown is fitted with rubies, and displays exquisitely detailed enamel portraits. Scholars say that Pope Sylvester II gave the treasure to Hungary...